A group of activists in the German capital are pushing an ambitious plan to eliminate private vehicles in the city center, an area twice as big as Manhattan.
Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity. Can the same approach work in the United States鈥 arid Southwest?
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥 is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we contemplate anger, heart, and action.
鈥淎t the end of the day, how does the gender binary and heteronormativity support the extraction and moving of wealth to this handful of global elites?鈥
While elites fixate on technological fixes such as 鈥渘et zero鈥 emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just phasing out of oil and gas鈥攁nd a seat at the table.
The authors, who are taking part in COP26 this week, discuss ways to support Indigenous communities and their allies in healing the planet and moving forward to a post-oil future.
While my family lives under existential threat from catastrophic cyclones in Mozambique, immigrant communities in the diaspora, like mine in London, also have to face toxic air quality.